jerkily
Example Sentences
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A tear skittered down my cheek and was jerkily wiped away.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2019
Sirens sound, the youth turns to run into a bunker, and the camera jerkily follows.
From Nature ● Jan. 1, 2019
The men with logs balance jerkily, while an entire family wobbles precariously by on one bicycle.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2016
“Be my hero! The world is right before me, the future is in my eyes!” a pop singer crooned as they jerkily pumped their small, identical fists in the air.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2016
Their little bodies twitched and stiffened; their limbs moved jerkily as if to the tug of unseen wires.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
